Possibilities
I entered into the dragon’s abode in search of some treasure, and I hoped that the dragon wouldn’t somehow return while I was here.
I mean, I had timed this perfectly, but even perfectly doesn’t always mean that a change of plans won’t mess everything up, ya know?
I quickly found a bunch of treasure, and I stuffed as much as I could into my bag and then quickly exited the dragon’s abode!
As I ran away, I saw the dragon flying back towards his abode earlier than he should have been, and I gulped because I knew that if I’d been there just a bit longer then I would’ve been caught!
But I hadn’t been caught!, and that was what mattered!
And now I was rich!
I continued running until I reached my abode, and I soon put all of the treasure onto my table and began admiring how much wealth I had managed to steal!
Then, suddenly!, a golden lamp that was on the table began shaking a bit, and I jumped! in surprise and backed up!
Had I actually managed to capture a magic genie?!?!?
The shaking lamp did indeed soon open up, and a genie shot! out of the lamp and said, “You’re not Scales! Why and I not home anymore?…” and I said, “I might’ve borrowed some treasure from ol’ Scales, ya know?…”
“Ha!” the genie said with a laugh!, “You mean stolen!, don’t you?…
But it is of no matter…
My name is Grant, and I can grant you 3 wishes!”
“Woohoo!” I said, “And I’m Becky, by the way.
And, hmmm…, I’m not really sure what to wish for…
Are there any curses that come upon those who make wishes or anything like that?”
“If a wish seems overly dangerous to me then I’ll do you the courtesy of warning you about it.” Grant said with a shrug, “Though ALL wishes have some possibility of danger involved…
But, for example, if you wished for a nice sweater or something, it wouldn’t be like a sweater that has a disease on it or something.
The danger from the sweater would be almost non-existent, and it wouldn’t be any more dangerous than any other sweater.”
“That makes sense,”
I said, “and so I guess I’ll just have to come up with a list of some things that I want!
And I don’t have to be in a hurry to come up with the list, so I?…”
“Nope.” Grant said, “3 wishes is 3 wishes, and you can make them as soon or as far in the future as you want to.
Though, of course, if you die or I get stolen from you then you’ll be out of luck!”
“And so can you do like time travel and multiverse travel and whatnot?” I asked; and Grant said, “I can’t promise that I’ll be able to take you to any time or any part of the multiverse, but I can usually take folks to most times and most parts of the multiverse.”
“Nice!” I said, “This means that there’s really a lot of possibilities going on here…
Hmmm…
I think that I’ll give it some thought and then get back to you later about the wishes!” and Grant said, “Wise choice! Some folks are so eager to make wishes that they make some rather silly ones instead of making the better wishes that usually take more time to come up with.”
“That makes sense!…” I said; and then I continued sorting through the treasure!…
I then noticed that there was a very tiny cooking pot and stove in the collection, and I picked it up and looked at it in interest.
The thing that had caught my attention about it was that there had been steam coming out of the pot as if something had been cooking inside of it!
Then, suddenly!, as I was examining the tiny pot and stove, the pot and stove began to grow!!!
I quickly! set the pot and stove down on the ground next to where the table full of treasure was, and the pot and stove continued to grow! as I gazed at the pot and stove in amazement!
Soon, they had grown to the size of a regular pot and stove, and there was still steam coming out of the pot, and the smell of good food filled my abode!
“That smells pretty good!” I said hungrily, “Do you think that that food’s safe to eat, Grant?” and Grant said, “Most certainly! I mean, Scales ate food from that pot all the time when he still owned it!” and I said, “Woohoo!” and then I immediately got a bowl out and scooped some of the food that was in the pot into the bowl so that I could fill my belly and find out how good the food from the magic pot might taste!…
